I Cultivate Immortality With Scientific Thinking

Chapter 31: Discussion on the Prices in this Book

Um... as we all know, determining the prices in a novel is a difficult task, especially since the author is not an expert in economics. Therefore, it is difficult to establish a standard price.

After reading so many novels, I believe that the evaluation of prices in a novel mainly revolves around two aspects: the income of the protagonist and ordinary cultivators, and the price of precious elixirs. As for other things, they can fluctuate within a certain range.

After careful consideration, I realized that instead of randomly creating prices that could lead to a collapse in the later stages, it would be better to benchmark them against real-life situations.

In this book, the highest level of power in the mortal realm is Soul Formation, which is as rare as the top ten billionaires in the real world. The annual income of the world's richest person is several hundred billion, so let's use that as a benchmark for Soul Formation, and then gradually decrease the income level for each subsequent level.

Soul Formation - Several hundred billion Low Grade Spirit Stones

Nascent Soul - Several billion Low Grade Spirit Stones

Gold Core - Several million Low Grade Spirit Stones

Foundation Building - Several tens of thousands Low Grade Spirit Stones

Qi Refining - Three hundred Low Grade Spirit Stones

Note: 1. This refers to annual income, not total assets.

2. This is the income of the most ordinary cultivators at that level and does not include cultivators with various cultivation skills.

The second aspect is the pricing of precious elixirs. For example, the Foundation Building Pill, Gold Core Pill, and other precious elixirs, or the pricing of highly valuable Spirit Weapons, Law Weapons, and Law Treasures.

Determining these prices is difficult. If they are too high, even the protagonist won't be able to afford them, and if they are too low, they will appear too cheap and fail to highlight their value.

So after much thought, I suddenly realized that there seems to be something in reality that can be used as a reference, and that is... houses.

From what I understand, in most places where the average monthly salary is 3000, the price of a house is around one million. In other words, with an annual income of over thirty thousand and not spending anything, it would take thirty years of work to afford a house.

So, in the context of the novel, the price of a Foundation Building Pill, for example, would be equivalent to working for thirty years with an annual income of 300 spirit stones, which is about ten thousand spirit stones. This aligns well with the prices of Foundation Building Pills in most cultivation novels. Late-stage elixirs would have a higher price, but it would be based on this foundation.

And such prices can only be afforded and purchased by sects, clans, or cultivators with exceptional cultivation skills. This also provides a reasonable opportunity for supporting characters in this book to have a chance to purchase and upgrade spiritual treasures.

Oh, I almost forgot one thing. Some readers have mentioned that the protagonist's creation of various cultivation techniques from scratch is too fast and not scientifically plausible. I have something to say about this.

As we all know, scientific experiments require determining the research direction, then selecting a topic, and finally obtaining results through daily experiments.

This process is very tedious and can only focus on stages that are close to success and then elaborate on them.

If you want me to write out the entire research process and make it detailed and interesting... I'm sorry, but as a new author, this is my first time writing a book, and I don't have the ability to do that. I'm sorry~

Moreover, after reading many novels, I found that if I were to write it that way, it would easily be criticized as filler content. So after much thought, I decided to only focus on a part of it and then summarize the overall picture.

This book mainly revolves around the protagonist, Lin Chen, exploring and discovering the world composed of spiritual energy, as well as the battle between righteousness and evil in the southern cultivation world and even the mortal realm. I have only briefly mentioned the detailed research process, so please forgive any shortcomings.

Finally, if anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to point them out.

(End of Chapter)